#VU11319 Buffer over-read in memcached - CVE-2013-0179
Published: March 26, 2018 / Updated: March 29, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11319
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0179
CWE-ID: CWE-126
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
memcached
memcached
Software vendor:
Memcached
Memcached
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to boundary error in the process_bin_delete function when running in verbose mode. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash via a request to delete a key, which does not account for the lack of a null terminator in the key and triggers buffer over-read when printing to stderr.
Remediation
Update to version 1.4.17.